9:00 AM ET The PGA Tour heads to California this week for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Defending champion Nick Taylor won last year’s event by four shots (19-under). The field will be without world No. 1 Dustin Johnson, who withdrew Monday following his victory at the Saudi International. So which players are the favorites,
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7:02 AM ET Associated Press Open Championship organisers said on Wednesday they have “cautious optimism” that golf’s oldest major will go ahead at Royal St. George’s in July. The event was cancelled last year — for the first time since 1945 — because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the R&A effectively pushing its schedule back
1:33 PM ET Associated Press Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington has tested positive for the coronavirus and has withdrawn from the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Harrington missed the cut last week at the Phoenix Open, ending his streak of seven consecutive cuts made worldwide. The Irishman is the fifth player this year in six PGA
12:29 PM ET Associated Press More than a decade after Annika Sorenstam won her last LPGA Tour event, she’s ready to tee it up again. The LPGA Tour announced on Twitter the 50-year-old Sorenstam has committed to play the Gainbridge LPGA in Orlando, Florida, scheduled for Feb. 25-28 on her home course of Lake Nona.
11:40 AM ET For the first time in major professional competition, distance-measuring devices will be allowed this year at the three major championships run by the PGA of America: The PGA Championship, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and the Kitchen Aid Senior PGA Championship. The devices, which are used extensively in amateur and recreational play,
11:58 AM ET Augusta National announced Tuesday that 85 players so far have accepted invitations to the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, the tournament the club founded in 2019 but that was canceled in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Anyone invited to the 2020 event received an invitation this year, provided they remained an amateur.
6:50 AM ET Coming off his victory at the Saudi International, world No. 1 Dustin Johnson has withdrawn from this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. No reason was given. Johnson’s withdrawal leaves the field without a top-10 player and only three in the top 20. Johnson has won at Pebble Beach twice and come in
7:36 AM ET Like all golf tournaments during the pandemic, Pebble Beach will look considerably different this week. Perhaps more so than any other event. Sure, unobstructed views of the coastal waters will be nice, as will some other perks associated with watching in non-spectator times. But for the first time in the AT&T Pebble
6:41 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Brooks Koepka chipped in from 32 yards for eagle on the 17th hole to break a tie for the lead and then parred the last for a one-stroke victory Sunday in the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Five strokes behind Jordan Spieth and Xander Schauffele entering the round,
8:56 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Top-ranked Dustin Johnson won the Saudi International for the second time in three years on Sunday after shooting a 2-under 68 in the final round to finish 2 strokes clear of Justin Rose and Tony Finau. Johnson, who was also runner-up in 2020,
6:17 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A day after saying he needed to be patient about results, Jordan Spieth matched his career best with a 10-under 61 on Saturday for a share of the third-round lead with Xander Schauffele in the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Winless since the 2017 British Open, Spieth is
8:59 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Jordan Spieth knows what it’s like to lead a tournament after 54 holes. It just hasn’t happened for a while. And that has Spieth expecting to be nervous Sunday when he starts the final round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open in search of his first win since The
10:31 AM ET American Dustin Johnson carded a four-under-par 66 in the third round to go 13-under overall and take a two-shot lead at the Saudi International on Saturday. Despite a double-bogey on the par-four 13th when he found the water, Johnson recorded six birdies to stave off the challenge of Frenchman Victor Perez who
8:45 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Steve Stricker is having too much fun at the Waste Management Phoenix Open to stress over a messy finish Friday. Trying to become the oldest winner in PGA Tour history, the 53-year-old U.S. Ryder Cup captain shot a 5-under 66 to get within a stroke of leader
7:48 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Over the first two days of the Waste Management Phoenix Open, Jordan Spieth saw the kind of round he’s been looking for. He putted “out of his mind” and then hit 11 fairways. Unfortunately, for Spieth, the two didn’t happen on the same day. The former came Thursday, the
12:27 PM ET New Zealand’s Ryan Fox carded a second consecutive five-under-par 65 to take a share of the lead in a rain-affected second round at the Saudi International on Friday. Over two hours of play were lost to wet conditions at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club, with several late starters having a majority
7:30 AM ET Taneka Mackey (née Sandiford), 26, is the first Bahamian woman caddie on the LPGA Tour. Since 2017, Mackey has caddied for LPGA Tour player Amy Olson. After suffering a seizure in November 2018, Mackey was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Despite her diagnosis, Mackey returned to Olson’s bag in 2019 and remains the
8:55 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Co-leader Matthew NeSmith nearly made a hole-in-one on the par-3 16th and barely got a reaction from the few fans. Xander Schauffele flubbed a chip and couldn’t help but hear a surprised spectator’s reaction. With attendance capped at about 5,000 at sunny TPC Scottsdale, a fraction of